Soo school is about to start and I'm already worried lol

[Zahboo]

I need advice. The school year starts in 2 weeks. I need some tips

-I SUCK at taking tests. I can answer the question before the test and blank when I see it.

-The way one teacher teaches last year is different from how the next teacher teaches the next level up, any tips on expanding the ways I understand things.

-My week subjects are all the core subjects (lucky me huh?) I don't analyze well, in math I get numbers confused, science I THINK I get it and it ends up I don't. Last year I stayed after school almost every day for tutoring. It was just like 15 minutes a day, but just enough to review it so I could get it. I understand by taking notes, and then discussing it, but NO ONE at my school teaches that way. They want to explain while taking the notes and I have trouble listening and writing. I either miss what they say or miss notes.


Soo any good study ways (I will be cutting back TONS on byc time) and ways to stay with the class or hopefully, ahead?

 

[Zahboo]

wrong section about to ask a mod to move

 

[chickenwhisperer123]

Well I cant help you, but I did want to say...

LUCKY!!!

I start school on THURSDAY!! thats like... ummm.... 2 days!!

 

[thewarriorchild]

Use a tape recorder and pay attention and ask questions in class then write the notes at home or get one of these.....

http://www.amazon.com/Livescribe-2G...3?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1250046712&sr=1-3

Then pass it to me when 2.0 comes out. I can not figure out a good enough excuse why I need one of these

 

[Serrin]

It sounds to me Zahboo that you've already jumped the first hurdle by recognizing that you have a problem! Good for you!

If getting a bit of extra time with the teacher after school has helped in the past, I would continue with that. Teachers, after all, WANT to teach! They WANT you to be able to understand the lessons. NO teacher ever wants to have a student fail!

Probably the best person around here to help you, right off of the top of my head would be WriterofWords, since she is a TEACHER!!

Have you considered perhaps a few sessions with something like Sylvan Learning Centers? They're expensive, but I've seen the results with a friends son. He was failing just about every course in his middle school years. About 3 months with Sylvan and he was nearly straight A's

I wish I could give you something really sound and solid to help you. The things they teach in school these days makes me feel like a complete idiot and I was a fairly good student all of my life!

One thing I could maybe recommend though. A small recording device. Either an MP3 with voice recording capabilities or even a funky old Sony Walkman tape deck. Use either to tape the teacher every day while taking notes for yourself. That way, you have both the notes and the lesson as the teacher gives it. You can review at your own pace at home. If you still don't get it, there's always after school extra help.

Good luck with your classes this year and, as time allows, give us an update on how you're doing!

 

[shelleyd2008]

You should also be able to take your tests differently. It might be possible to have the test read to you, rather than reading them yourself. Thanks to the 'no child left behind' program, the schools really try to help you. If yours doesn't, you can choose to go to a different school, also thanks to the NCLB program

 

[Zahboo]

I get good grades. Honor courses. It's just I didn't know if there was an easier way. Our teacher here are not the friendliest. If you don't get it, they don't like to repeat it, because they think you weren't listening. I'm hoping I DON'T have my friends in my classes, because they distract me

. We definitely can't afford Sylvan. If it came down to failing, my FFA advisor offered to tutor me last year. She helped with biology and we studyed like 2 hours a day because I didn't get it. I have help, but hate to make her stay after school especially since she was my teacher that quarter. She enjoys helping though. I always get sat by people that text or talk and that annoys me. Text during lunch NOT all class. Ask the teacher to get moved and they say I have to learn to adjust to all types of people.

 

[wombat]

I'm not a "teacher", although I was often an instructor in the military and also have taught technical courses ...

I would suggest that you try to learn something as though you were going to teach it to someone else. Do you have a younger sibling you could "teach" to get in the habit of learning this way? Are your parents supportive enough that you could "teach" them? I get my daughter to "teach" me what she's learning in school when she is getting stuck. I've found that learning something as though you were going to teach it will take you a lot farther than simply trying to learn it well enough to pass the next test.

You'll have a lot less test anxiety, because you will know that you have mastered the material!

Math is something that sticks better if you *do* it. Do your practice problems. I've started giving my daughter extra practice problems, and also applying math to things she is interested in. She's been retaining what she's taught much better since we started doing this.

Let's say you get 50 meat birds ... and they're expected to have a feed conversion ratio of 2.2:1, and you expect them to get to 6 lbs. before you slaughter ... approximately how much feed will they consume? If the feed costs $12 per 40 lbs bag, how much will you spend on feed?

If you learn to understand and apply math, you'll find that it works to your advantage in just about any task out there in the real world. Hopefully, you will find a teacher who will inspire you to learn for your own betterment and for the joy of learning, and not just to pass the next test!

 

[Serrin]

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Really? They allow texting in CLASS?!?!

At Annie's school, if you're even caught with your phone on it's taken away until the end of class. And that's just the first offense. Second offense and I think they're sent to the office and then home with a one day suspension....or something like that....

Sounds like your school needs to wake up and smell the coffee and realize that the classroom is NO place for texting to be going on!

 

[Emzyyy]

HATE school. The only reason to attend school is to...
#1. RUN MY FRIGGEN' HEART OUT
#2. ART
#3. ENGLISH (only the reading part)
#4. FRIENDS

(course this year will be my first year of Biology. Like the whole animal thing, but lets see how it turns out when he sets a dead frog on my desk and tells me to cut it up.

I WILL cause a scene.)

Just to tell you I ain't the person to get tips from. I failed my math finals, still passed the class but whatever. My math grades went from A to F to A to F to A all year even within a week or two only because of my running. I care more during season.